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Plan des Iles Kuriles et des Terres peu connues situees a la suite de ces Iles: d'apres un manuscrit conserve dans les Archives d'Ochotsk qui a ete communique a M. Lesseps en 1788. Paris 1798,. Kupferstich von Bouclet/Herault, 50 x 70 cm. Sehr gut erhalten, breitrandig. Wide margins, very good condition.. * Das Kartenbild reicht von der Südspitze Kamtchatkas bis zum Norden Japans, mit kleiner Nebenkarte der Aleuten. Im Norden Japans sind gestochene Berichte über die dort lebenden Völker enthalten: im Lande Nanacaki (Nangasaki?) regieren zehn Chefs; die Einwohner besitzen Gold und Silber und tragen seidene Kleider; man findet dort Kanonen, Gewehre und Militärmusik; sie besitzen keine Wollstoffe, sondern nur Seide und Baumwolle. Ein russisches Schiff sei herzlich empfangen und gebeten worden, bald wiederzukommen. Die Einwohner einer großen Insel tragen kurze Kleider und lange Hosen, sie treiben Seehandel mit den Bewohnern der Amur-Gegend, diese liefern Otter-, Fuchs- und Zobelfelle und nehmen dafür Gold, Silber und Wertvolle Stoffe. Quite a detailed chart of the Chain of the Kourile Islands just off the Aleutians, which was taken from a manuscript chart in the Archives of Ochotsk, by the 23 year old de Lesseps, on his momentous overland journey back to France with Laperouse's charts and drawings. A cartographically important chart showing the Region between Kamtchatka's South and Northern Japan. The chart with wide margins, in very good condition. [Bookseller: Antiquariat Ruthild Jäger] 
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Observations on the Western Parts of England, relative chiefly to Picturesque Beauty; to which are added a few remarks on the picturesque beauties of the Isle of Wight. T. Cadell 1798 - First edition. Large-paper copy. xvi, 359, [1]p advert., 18 sepia aquatint plates. A very good clean copy bound in later, but not recent, half calf, marbled boards. Raised and gilt banded spine with dark green label. Modern book-plate. 4to. T. Cadell Jun. and W. Davies. 1798. ". on the Western Tour, he seized his impressions with far greater delicacy than heretofore. The sketches, which cannot have taken more than a few minutes to execute, have about them a lyrical quality; some shimmer with air and sunlight, others have a Japanese flavour, as pen and brush run riot to provide a contrasting foreground, in others again, the brush alone, by washes, lines and squiggles and dots, provides and adequate and satisfying statement." [Attributes: Hard Cover] [Bookseller: Ken Spelman Books ABA, PBFA. (est 1948)]
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Memoirs of the Author of a Vindication of the Rights of Woman. By William Godwin. [Bound together with] Thoughts on the Education of Daughters: with Reflections on Female Conduct, in The more important Duties of Life. By Mary Wollstonecraft. London: for J. Johnson, and G. G. and J. Robinson,/for J. Johnson, 1798/1787 - Two works bound as one, octavo. Contemporary half-calf, spine gilt-ruled in compartments, rebacked with the original spine laid down, marbled sides. Contemporary ink ownership inscription to first blank. Spine and corners somewhat rubbed, slight cracking to hinges but the joints holding fine, mild toning to endpapers offset from turn-ins, faint marginal dampstain to portrait frontispiece, title page faintly offset from frontis, rear free endpaper just loosening at the head, otherwise internally quite fresh and on the whole a very good copy indeed. Half-title, engraved portrait frontispiece and errata leaf to the first work. First editions of two scarce and important Godwin/Wollstonecraft books; William Godwin's memoir of his late wife Mary Wollstonecraft here found together in a contemporary binding with a first edition of Wollstonecraft's first book, Thoughts on the Education of Daughters. Godwin's touching and frank account of his wife's life marks an important step in the development of the art of biography. The details of her sexual liaison with Imlay, the birth of her illegitimate daughter, and her suicide attempts, all scandalised contemporary readers for whom biographies were expected to be glowing accounts of admirable qualities. Godwin, the grieving widower, was determined that the public deserved to know the whole truth about this remarkable woman. Wollstonecraft's first book, Thoughts on the Education of Daughters, was based on her own rather brief experience as a teacher. In 1784, at the age of 24 she had opened up her own school for girls at Newington Green, but this failed and she took an appointment, also destined to be short-lived, as governess to the children of the aristocratic Kingsborough family in Ireland. In the midst of these disappointments, however, she was introduced to the publisher of rational dissent, Joseph Johnson, who agreed to publish this, her first book, thus beginning a literary association between the two that long outlasted her career as a juvenile educationalist. Apart from a single contemporary printing in Dublin, by W. Sleater, 1788, the book was not reprinted until 1972, when rising feminist literary discourse co-opted it as a precursor text to her Rights of Woman (1792). First editions of both books are very uncommon, particularly Thoughts on the Education of Daughters, and to have them bound thus together in a near-contemporary binding is highly appealing. [Attributes: First Edition] [Bookseller: Peter Harrington. ABA member]
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Athenian Letters: Or, The Epistolary Correspondence of an agent of the King of Persia, residing at Athens during the Peloponnesian War. With original engravings of 1."Philip Earl of Hardwicke" / 2. "Alcibiades" / 3. Unitentified "From an original Bust in the Collection of Charles Townley Esq." / 4. "Herodotus - From a Bust in the Capitol" / 5. "Thucydides" / 6. "Socrates" / 7. "Aristophanes" / 8. "Sophocles" / 9. "Charles Yorke" / 10. "Democritus" / 11. "Aspasia" / 12. "Hippocrates" / 13. "Nicias" / 14. "Euripides" / A new Edition (Illustrated); to which is prefixed a geographical Index. In two volumes. Illustrated with engravings (8) and a map (large, folded) of antient Greece. London: Cadell and Davies. Rebacked in the early 19th century. Spines rubbed and slightly cracked. Besides minor foxing inside very tight and clean.. London, Cadell and Davies, 1798. 4°. Volume I: Engraved frontispiece portrait of Philip Earl of Hardwicke, LXII, 436 pages. Volume II: Portrait of "The Honourable Charles Yorke", XV, 466 pages. Original full leather (Hardcover). Rebacked in the early 19th century. Spines rubbed and slightly cracked. Besides minor foxing inside very tight and clean. The Athenian Letters was a collaborative work of Ancient Greek history and geography, published by a circle of authors around Charles Yorke and Philip Yorke, and taking the form of commentary in letter form on Thucidydes. It had a ?"considerable vogue?". While still college students, the brothers Yorke planned the work, which was begun in 1739 and appeared in two volumes (1741 and 1743), initially in a very small private edition. Others involved, anonymously, were Thomas Birch, Henry Coventry, John Green, Samuel Salter, Catherine Talbot, Daniel Wray, George Henry Rooke, John Heaton, John Lawry, and William Heberden. The authorship was for a long time a well-guarded secret. A one-volume edition in 1781 ran to 100 copies, the first edition having been only of 10, and later editions and a French translation followed (Wikipedia) [With a wonderful handwritten note by American jurist John Forrest Dillon regarding the purchasing of the work on auction attached to the front free endpaper, explaining also the content and impact of the work. The two volumes include 14 portraits which we list here in order. 1."Philip Earl of Hardwicke" / 2. "Alcibiades" / 3. Unitentified "From an original Bust in the Collection of Charles Townley Esq." / 4. "Herodotus - From a Bust in the Capitol" / 5. "Thucydides" / 6. "Socrates" / 7. "Aristophanes" / 8. "Sophocles" / 9. "Charles Yorke" / 10. "Democritus" / 11. "Aspasia" / 12. "Hippocrates" / 13. "Nicias" / 14. "Euripides" ] John Forrest Dillon (December 25, 1831 ?- May 6, 1914) was an American jurist ("Dillon's Rule") who served on federal and Iowa state courts. He authored a highly influential treatise on the power of states over municipal governments. Dillon was born in Northampton, Montgomery County, New York (now part of Fulton County, New York). He studied medicine at the University of Iowa at the age of 19. Shortly after beginning his medical practice, he abandoned it to read law, and was admitted to the Iowa bar in 1852. He worked in private practice until he was elected Scott County prosecutor in 1853, and then to a judgeship in Iowa's 7th Judicial Circuit in 1858. He was elevated to the Iowa Supreme Court, serving from January 1, 1864, until he resigned December 31, 1869. For two years of this period he was Chief Justice. in 1869, President Grant appointed him to the United States Circuit Court, which became the Eighth Circuit. While on the federal bench, Dillon wrote Municipal Corporations (1872), one of the earliest systematic studies of the subject. He also authored Removal of Cases from State Courts to Federal Courts and Municipal Bonds, both in 1876. On February 17, 1876, during the Whiskey Ring graft prosecutions, Justice Dillon ruled Ulysses S. Grant's deposition for Orville E. Babcock was admissible in court. After leaving the Circuit Court, Dillon was a professor at Columbia Law School from 1879 until 1882, where he taught real estate and equity. He taught at Yale Law School from 1891 until 1892, during which time he also served as the president of the American Bar Association. Dillon then returned to private practice until his death in 1914 in New York City. A memorial fountain to Dillon was erected in downtown Davenport, Iowa in 1918, carved of Indiana limestone in Romanesque style, by sculptor Harry Liva. Dillon's oldest son, Hiram Price Dillon (1855 ?- 1918), became a lawyer in Iowa and a Master of Chancery in federal court. John F. Dillon's sister married John B. Jordan, a Davenport, Iowa, merchant. That marriage produced a daughter Jennie, who married Louis Stengel. Louis and Jennie Stengel had a son, Charles Dillon (Casey) Stengel, named after the Judge, who had a long career as a baseball player and manager. The theory of state preeminence over local governments was expressed as Dillon's Rule in an 1868 case: "Municipal corporations owe their origin to, and derive their powers and rights wholly from, the legislature. It breathes into them the breath of life, without which they cannot exist. As it creates, so may it destroy. If it may destroy, it may abridge and control". By contrast, the Cooley Doctrine expressed the theory of an inherent right to local self-determination. In a concurring opinion, Michigan Supreme Court Judge Thomas M. Cooley in 1871 stated: "[L]ocal government is a matter of absolute right; and the state cannot take it away". In Municipal Corporations (1872), Dillon explained that in contrast to the powers of states, which are unlimited but for express restrictions under the state or federal constitution, municipalities only have the powers that are expressly granted to them. This formulation of the scope of municipal power came to be known as the Dillon Rule: that municipal governments have only the powers expressly granted to them by the state legislature, those that are necessarily implied from that grant of power, and those that are essential and indispensable to the municipality's existence and functioning; that any ambiguities in the legislative grant of power should be resolved against the municipality so that its powers are narrowly construed; that when the state has not specifically directed the method by which the municipality may implement its granted power, the municipality has the discretion to choose the method so long as its choice is reasonable. Hundreds of U.S. court decisions have employed the Dillon Rule to determine the scope of municipal powers and rights. Critics of the rule have argued that it imposes unreasonable constraints on the ability of communities to govern themselves and undermines democracy or that local self-government is a matter of natural right that does not need to be conferred by higher political structures. Some have suggested that Dillon's approach derived from the contemporary view that cities were inherently corrupt political organs. Deviations from the Dillon Rule remain in the minority, however, despite the significant decrease in the public perception of municipal corruption. The Supreme Court of the United States cited Municipal Corporations and fully adopted Dillon's emphasis on state power over municipalities in Merrill v. Monticello, which upheld the power of Pennsylvania to consolidate the city of Allegheny into the city of Pittsburgh, despite the objections of a majority of Allegheny's residents. The Court's ruling that states could alter or abolish at will the charters of municipal corporations without infringing upon contract rights relied upon Dillon's distinction between public, municipal corporations and private ones. David Y. Miller argues that Dillon hit upon a central paradox defining American cities: having great political authority while having little legal legitimacy. He quotes Dillon as calling municipalities "mere tenants at will of their respective state legislatures" which could be "eliminated by the legislature with a stroke of the pen". Dillon also said that eliminating local government would be "so great a folly, and so great a wrong". (Wikipedia) [Bookseller: The Time Traveller's Bookshop]
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Hamlet. Tragedia de Guillermo Shakespeare. Madrid, en la Officina de Villalpando, 1798.. 8vo (227 x 168 mm). (48), 379, (1) pp. With engr. frontispiece by Leonetti after Giuseppe Cades, printed title with aphorism from Martial verso. Later Curwen patterned paper boards, leather title labels with gilt titles to spine. Edges uncut.. The very scarce first edition of Hamlet in Spanish. Translated by the Spanish playwright and poet Leandro Fernandez de Moratin (1760-1828) under the pseudonym "Inarco Celenio", this first Spanish translation was published almost two centuries after the play was first performed (c.1600) and published in quarto form (1603). De Moratin travelled to Paris where he planned to study French drama, however the events of the Revolution in France so terrified him that he fled to England where he began the translation. As de Moratin wrote in a letter to Juan Antonio Melon: "If the French had not been crazy, I would never have come to see Shakespeare's immortal works." The beginning of Hamlet's famous monologue in Act III, Scene IV is here rendered thus: "Existir o no existir: esta es la qüestion. Qual es mas digna accion del animo, sufrir los tiros penetrantes de la fortuna injusta, u oponer los brazos a este torrente de calamidades, y darlas fin con atrevida resistencia?" - "In spite of Moratin's critical judgement of Hamlet, his translation was very honest, since he did not alter Shakespeare's departures from the neoclassical canon. Moratin's fidelity to the source text, even when he did not agree with it, explains the success and permanence of his translation [...] Moratin was the writer who most influenced Spanish translators of Shakespeare" (Isabel Verdaguer, "Shakespeare's 'Poem Unlimited' in Eighteenth-Century Spain", in: Translating Shakespeare for the Twenty-First Century, Amsterdam/NY 2004). This first Spanish edition of Hamlet is particularly rare in commerce and the only examples we can locate at auction are from the 1960s (two copies); COPAC lists three copies in the UK, at the British Library, Oxford and Cambridge and while OCLC locates further copies in North America, it lists only two in Spanish libraries, a copy at the Bibliotheque National de France and one at Berlin for Europe; the Folger Shakespeare Library has three copies. - A good copy with presentation in blue ink to initial blank: "Para Salvador / Abril 1948. / Oxford" and ownership inscription - presumably that of "Salvador" - beneath in blue ink with additional location detail. [Bookseller: Antiquariat Inlibris, Gilhofer Nfg. GmbH]
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The Trial of James O'Coigly, otherwise called James Quigley, otherwise called James John Fivey, Arthur O'Connor, Esq , John Binns, John Allen, and Jeremiah Leary, for High Treason, under a Special Commission, at Maidstone, in Kent [etc ] O'Higgins 3 67 London: Sold by M. Gurney, Bookseller, Holborn-Hill, 1798. Contemporary 1/4 calf over marbled boards, very rubbed, the spine chipped and heavily varnished, else a good, untrimmed and partly uncut copy By far the most extensive account of the trial of Father O'Coigly and his fellow United Irishmen, captured while seeking passage to France, his possession of incriminating documents leading to his conviction of high treason, hanging and decapitation [Bookseller: Meyer Boswell Books, Inc.]
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Loyal Volunteers of London & Environs, London: Rudolph Ackermann, 1798-9. - Thomas Rowlandson's Loyal Volunteers of London The Plates Heightened in Gold and SilverROWLANDSON, Thomas. Loyal Volunteers of London & Environs, Infantry & Cavalry, in their respective Uniforms. Representing the whole of the Manual, Platoon, & Funeral Exercise in 87 plates Designed & Etch'd by T. Rowlandson. [London]: Rudolph Ackermann, [1798-99]. First edition, early issue (plates heightened in gold and silver). Large quarto (13 x 10 1/2 inches; 330 x 266 mm.). viii, [4, list of subscribers and contents]. Descriptive text to each plate + index and errata at end. Hand-colored etched title-page, 86 hand-colored etched plates, many heightened with gold or silver, all by and after Thomas Rowlandson. Bound without the two later issued plates** as usual. Contemporary full red straight-grain morocco, covers decoratively paneled in gilt, spine with five double raised-bands, decoratively tooled and lettered in gilt, gilt board edges and turn-ins. Expertly and almost invisibly rebacked to style.A wonderful and large copy of this important work by Thomas Rowlandson, with early impressions of the plates heightened with gold and silver. The text and plates are watermarked 1794. Abbey's copy measured 12 5/8 x 9 3/8 inches.**"Two additional plates exist, 'Expedition or Military Fly' and 'Sadler's Flying Artillery': the book was bound in volume form before they were issued. Copies without them can, therefore, be considered complete." (Abbey).Paradoxically (this is a military costume book after all), Rowlandson here presents some of this most elegant and effective work in terms of pure print-making. The result is arguably the greatest of all military costume books, in that it ascends beyond being a mere record of uniforms to become an elegy to patriotism, an important social document and a cohesive work of art, all produced at a time of great national peril.The phenomenon of the volunteer corps arose as a response to the perceived imminent danger of invasion by the French Napoleonic forces. Rudolph Ackermann notes in his introduction that 'At this moment, the enemy had advanced their best regulated legions to the shores of the British Channel; and for the determined purpose of spreading through our land such miseries as have already rendered wretched their own'. The British response was immediate and defiant, and Ackermann goes on to note that when the Loyal Volunteers of London were inspected by the King on 21st June 1799 the roll-call of volunteers, manning 11 different positions, totalled just over 12,200 men. The present work serves as a record of that overwhelming show of loyalty, as well as of the uniforms of all the main volunteer forces. In addition, Rowlandson pictures each individual in a particular drill position, the name and details of which are given in the engraved text beneath each figure.Abbey Life 379; Prideaux p. 350; C. Thomson Bobins II, 385; Tooley 416; Colas, 2586. [Attributes: First Edition] [Bookseller: David Brass Rare Books, Inc.]
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The life of Edward, Earl of Clarendon, containing, I. An account of the chancellor's life from his birth to the Restoration in 1660. II. A continuation of the same, and of his history of the grand rebellion, from the Restoration to his banishment in 1667. (5 volume set) Basil, J.J. Tourneisen 1798 - 5 volume set. 1/4 leather over blue marbled boards. Marbled end pages. Good bindings and covers. pp. [i], VI, 298; [i], 320; [i], 346; [i], 318; [i], 252, [28, Index]. Gift book plate of noted American historian, Henry Steele Commager. Hampshire College library stamps and markings. ESTC N11002. [Attributes: Hard Cover] [Bookseller: Sequitur Books]
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Loyal Volunteers of London & Environs, 1798-9. first edition. Thomas Rowlandson's Loyal Volunteers of London…The Plates Heightened in Gold and SilverROWLANDSON, Thomas. Loyal Volunteers of London & Environs, Infantry & Cavalry, in their respective Uniforms. Representing the whole of the Manual, Platoon, & Funeral Exercise in 87 plates Designed & Etch'd by T. Rowlandson. [London]: Rudolph Ackermann, [1798-99]. First edition, early issue (plates heightened in gold and silver). Large quarto (13 x 10 1/2 inches; 330 x 266 mm.). viii, [4, list of subscribers and contents]. Descriptive text to each plate + index and errata at end. Hand-colored etched title-page, 86 hand-colored etched plates, many heightened with gold or silver, all by and after Thomas Rowlandson. Bound without the two later issued plates** as usual. Contemporary full red straight-grain morocco, covers decoratively paneled in gilt, spine with five double raised-bands, decoratively tooled and lettered in gilt, gilt board edges and turn-ins. Expertly and almost invisibly rebacked to style.A wonderful and large copy of this important work by Thomas Rowlandson, with early impressions of the plates heightened with gold and silver. The text and plates are watermarked 1794. Abbey's copy measured 12 5/8 x 9 3/8 inches.**"Two additional plates exist, 'Expedition or Military Fly' and 'Sadler's Flying Artillery': the book was bound in volume form before they were issued. Copies without them can, therefore, be considered complete." (Abbey).Paradoxically (this is a military costume book after all), Rowlandson here presents some of this most elegant and effective work in terms of pure print-making. The result is arguably the greatest of all military costume books, in that it ascends beyond being a mere record of uniforms to become an elegy to patriotism, an important social document and a cohesive work of art, all produced at a time of great national peril.The phenomenon of the volunteer corps arose as a response to the perceived imminent danger of invasion by the French Napoleonic forces. Rudolph Ackermann notes in his introduction that 'At this moment, the enemy had advanced their best regulated legions to the shores of the British Channel; and for the determined purpose of spreading through our land such miseries as have already rendered wretched their own'. The British response was immediate and defiant, and Ackermann goes on to note that when the Loyal Volunteers of London were inspected by the King on 21st June 1799 the roll-call of volunteers, manning 11 different positions, totalled just over 12,200 men. The present work serves as a record of that overwhelming show of loyalty, as well as of the uniforms of all the main volunteer forces. In addition, Rowlandson pictures each individual in a particular drill position, the name and details of which are given in the engraved text beneath each figure.Abbey Life 379; Prideaux p. 350; C. Thomson Bobins II, 385; Tooley 416; Colas, 2586. [Bookseller: David Brass Rare Books, Inc.]
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[K366, 489]. Idomeneo, Rè di Creta, Opera seria in tre Atti... Idomeneus König von Creta, eine ernsthafte Oper in drey Aufzügen... No. 51. Pr: Fr 21. [Piano-vocal score] Bonn: Simrock [PN 51]. [1798]. Oblong folio. Modern half dark blue morocco with black textured paper boards, early decorative cut-paper label with manuscript titling inlaid to upper, spine with titling gilt. 1f. (title), [i] (cast list, table of contents, credits of German translation to "Herrn v. Apell... Intendanten des Hoftheaters zu Cassel," and advertisement), 2-183, [i] (blank) pp. Engraved. With overpaste to foot of title: "In Frankfurt am Mayn, bey J. C. Gayl. weissadler-Gasse Lit. F. No. 14." Occasional annotations i(ncluding accidentals and notational corrections; literals in German) in pencil, especially to pp. 88-89 (no. 14), pointing to a performance transposed to E-flat major (instead of E major). Abrasion affecting first measure of p. 9. Former owner's signature to upper right corner of front endpaper erased, with "S[einem] l[ieben] Karl zu Weihnachten 1912. E." in ink below erasure. Some soiling and offsetting; most leaves with minor dampstaining and, from page 158, with some holes and tears professionally repaired; small stabholes to upper inner margins. . Published one year after the first edition. Köchel 6 p. 372. Hoboken 11, 111 (later issue, with price "Fl. 9," pointing to a date after 1814). Hirsch IV, 39 (later issue, with price "9 fl.," pointing to a date after 1814, and catalogue to final page). RISM M4192 (not distinguishing among issues). In the present edition the duet "Spiegarti non poss'io" (K489), composed for the 1786 performance in Vienna, replaces the original 1781 duet "S'io non moro" in act 3. The German text is by David August von Apell (1754-1832). [Bookseller: J & J Lubrano Music Antiquarians LLC]
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The Analysis of Beauty" originaler, knapprandiger Kupferstich 40x49cm; in der Platte bezeichnet: 'Designed by W.Hogarth' und 'engraved by T.Cook' Robinson London 1798 - Berühmte wie herrliche Karikatur des antiken Schönheitsideals. Wurde zum ersten Mal in der gleichlautenden Abhandlung Hogarths zu seinen Ansichten über die Kunst zusammen mit einer Kupferstichkarikatur des höfischen Schönheitsideals bei Reeves London 1753 publiziert. [Bookseller: Antiquariat Niederbayern]
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Standrede am Grabe der Madame Schuwitz. Ein Neujahrsgeschenk für Incroyables. (Motto:) Homo sum, humani nihil a me alienum puto {Ich bin ein Mensch, nichts Menschliches ist mir fremd] Rastadt (d. i.: Leipzig, Wienbrack oder Gräff), 1798.. 46 S. Umschlag aus Kammmarmor-Papier d. Zt. Hayn-Got. I, 316. - Seltene erste Ausgabe der amüsanten, satirischen Leichenrede auf die bekannte Berliner Bordellbesitzerin Elise Schuwitz mit zahlreichen Anspielungen auf Zeitgenossen. Der Autor, auch genannt ?"Spuck-Schulz?", war ein auch von Goethe anerkannter Publizist und Theaterkritiker. -Voller Pikanterien sind die Hinweise im ?"Testament?" (ab S. 29) auf Berliner Persönlichkeiten und erotische Bücher der Zeit. - Titel angestaubt. [Bookseller: Antiquariat Turszynski]
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Reflections on Monroe's view, of the conduct of the executive, as published in the Gazette of the United States, under the signature of Scipio In which the commercial warfare of France is traced to the French faction in this country, as its source, and the motives of opposition, &c [Philadelphia: Pr. by John Fenno 8vo signed in 4s (20 cm, 7.9"). 88 pp.. 1798] Monroe was dismissed from office as minister to the French Republic, then replaced by Pinckney; he subsequently attempted to vindicate his actions and place blame on the president in a publication entitled A View on the Conduct of the Executive on the Foreign Affairs of the United States, Connected with the Mission of the French Republic, which piece is here attacked by the so-called Scipio. Tracy does not confine himself to reproving Monroe's words, but also denounces Paine's letters and one letter translated from French that is attributed to Jefferson. Recently rebound in quarter blue goat over blue cloth, leather edges with gilt roll-tooling; spine with gilt-accented raised bands and with gilt-stamped title, author, place, and date. Some pages spotted. [Bookseller: SessaBks, A Division of the Philadelphia]
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An Hibernian Atlas - Or General Description of the Kingdom of Ireland: Divided into Provinces; with its sub-divisions of Counties, Baronies &c. Shewing their Boundaries, Extent, Soil, Produce, Contents, Measure, Members of Parliament, and Number of Inhabitants; Also the Cities, Boroughs, Villages, Mountains, Bogs, Lakes, Rivers, and Natural Curiosities. Together with the Great and Bye Post Roads. The whole taken from actual Surveys and Observations. By Bernard Scale, Land Surveyor and beautifully engraved on 78 Copper Plates by Messrs. Ellis and Palmer London: Robert Laurie & James Whittle. Second [best] Edition.. Excellent condition with minor scuffing to upper spine. Front free endpaper missing. The pastedown with minor peeling. Interior in absolutely excellent condition. The handcoloured maps in stunning colour. NO spotting or foxing !! The best version of this Atlas we have ever seen.. Second [best] Edition. London, Robert Laurie & James Whittle, 1798. Large Octavo. Engraved title, engraved dedication-page and 78 beautifully engraved and handcoloured maps with descriptions. Original half-leather with gilt lettering on original red spinelabel. Excellent condition with minor scuffing to upper spine. Front free endpaper missing. The pastedown with minor peeling. Interior in absolutely excellent condition. The handcoloured maps in stunning colour. NO spotting or foxing !! The best version of this Atlas we have ever seen. At the time of cataloging only two of these Atlases were available on the international market (one for 7700 Euros in similar condition like the one we have on offer and one unfortunately with later rebinding for 2250 Euros). This is an absolute must have for every collector of irish maps. [Bookseller: The Time Traveller's Bookshop]
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Attisches Museum. 2. Band, Heft 1 - 3 in 2 Bänden - Heinrich Geßner, Zürich, 1798. XXXII/144/174/180/163 Seiten mit einem vorgebundenen Einbandtitel, spätere Halbleinen-Einbände - Erstausgabe des 2. Bandes. Mit einer original Widmung auf Titelseite ,Seinem Freunde J. Macdonald, der Herausgeber C.M. Wieland", vermutlich der napoleonische General Jacques Macdonald (1765 - 1840) - [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover] [Bookseller: Celler Versandantiquariat]
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Message from the President of the United States, accompanying a report of the Secretary of State, containing observations on some of the documents, communicated by the President, on the eighteenth instant 21st January, 1799 Ordered to lie on the table Philadelphia: John Ward Fenno 8vo (20.2 cm, 8"). [2], 45, [1 (blank)] pp.. 1798 [i.e., 1799] Important documentation of a low point in relations between the United States and France, summing up the state of affairs following the signing of Jay's Treaty and the revelation of the XYZ Affair. John Adams's letter of transmittal is on the verso of the title-page, followed by Pickering's report describing numerous French government actions that could be interpreted as hostile or aggressive, if not directly contrary to international law, including much mention of seizures of American ships; the letter closes with Pickering's incendiary warning "I hope we shall remember ?'that the Tyger crouches before he leaps upon his prey'" (p. 45). Period-style quarter calf over marbled paper?-covered sides, spine with gilt-stamped title. First two leaves with a bit of light spotting in margins, otherwise clean. [Bookseller: SessaBks, A Division of the Philadelphia]
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Kochbuch der Maria Magdalena Louisa Grau, 1798. Handgeschriebenes Kochbuch. 1798.. Deutsche Handschrift auf Papier. Ca. 175 Blatt, davon 45 ungeschrieben. 21 x 17 cm. Halbleder der Zeit.. Einträge von unterschiedlicher Hand, in teils eigenwilliger Schreibweise (die an pfälzischen bis süddeutschen Gebrauch denken läßt), die letzten Blätter als Register einspaltig beschrieben. Enthält Rezepte wie: Einen gerührten Gugelhopfen zu machen; Bisquitdorten zu machen; Karpfen in einer schwartzen Soos; Schnecken zu kochen; Apfel Knöpflein; Krebs Dorten; Mandelring zu machen; Gefüllte Salathäuptchen mit Krebs u.a. Lose dabei liegen weitere ZahlreicheBlätter mit Rezepten aus der Zeit. - Einband stark bestoßen und beschabt, Bezug und Rücken mit Fehlstellen. Innen teils fleckig bzw. fingerfleckig, als Gebrauchsbuch ordentlich erhalten. [Bookseller: Antiquariat Mertens & Pomplun GbR (Versa]
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Militärisches Handbuch für Infanterie- und Kavallerieoffiziere welches einen vollständigen Unterricht über das Aufnehmen und Zeichnen militärischer Situationen enthält. I. Die nöthigsten Kenntnisse aus der mathematischen Geographie in Verbindung mit der Lehre vom Aufnehmen und Zeichnen der Entwürfe einzelner Theile militärischer Situationen; II. Die Lehre vom Aufnehmen und Zeichnen militärischer Situationen nebst einer Anleitung zur allgemeinen Terreinkenntniß. (Lehrbuch der gesammten Kriegswissenschaften für Offiziere bei der Infanterie und Kavallerie. Theil 1, Die Vorbereitungswissenschaften. Abth. 3), I-II. [TWO VOLUMES] Halle, Hemmerde & Schwetschke, 1798-1800.. Two volumes. Royal octavo. Pp. xviii, 492, (10) tables, plus 5 folding copper engraved plates bound at end; xxii, 478, plus large folding engraved map, contemporary hand-coloured, and 5 folding copper engraved plates bound at end. Hardcover, bound in matching, not identical contemporary handsome half calf and marbled boards, spines richly decorated in gilt, contrasting gilt morocco labels, old military institution stamps to each title and first paste-down. In fine condition. Excellent, attractive set, exceptionally well preserved. ~ First edition. Friedrich Meinert (1757-1828), was professor of philosophy at the University of Halle. In 1797 he began his military career as a Royal Prussian Lieutenant in the Second Engineers Brigade; taught fortifications and fortress war at the Military Engineering Academy in Potsdam. Compiled the ?Encyclopädie der Kriegswissenschaften und der Kriegskunst?. He was a prolific scientist who wrote on astronomy, geodesy, economics and architecture. He was the first to ?apply mathematics for the well-being of the state and its citizens, not so much to questions of distribution and political welfare as to economic law and theory, and above all to a multitude of technical questions that fall under the jurisdiction of the government: structural engineering in construction inspections; ballistics for artillery; mechanics and machinery in mills, transport, manufacturing, and mining.? -- Rüdiger Campe: The Game of Probability: Literature and Calculation from Pascal to Kleist (2012). [Bookseller: Librarium of The Hague]
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THE EXPERIENCED ENGLISH HOUSEKEEPER, For the Use and Ease of Ladies, Housekeepers, Cooks, &c. Written purely from Practice. Consisting of Several Hundred Original Receipts, most of which never appeared in Print. Manchester ;- G. Bancks Printer 1798 - Scarce Manchester Imprint. Illustrated with Frontis., & 5 Plates. (viii) + 434pps. + folding plates. Uncut. Crown 8vo. Hardback. Rebound in neat paper boards. Paper spine-label. New endpapers. A FINE EXAMPLE ! [Attributes: Hard Cover] [Bookseller: Halewood & Sons ABA ILAB]
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[K366, 489]. Idomeneo, Rè di Creta, Opera seria in tre Atti... Idomeneus König von Creta, eine ernsthafte Oper in drey Aufzügen... No. 51. Pr: Fr 21. [Piano-vocal score] Bonn: Simrock [PN 51]. [1798]. Oblong folio. Modern half dark blue morocco with black textured paper boards, early decorative cut-paper label with manuscript titling inlaid to upper, spine with titling gilt. 1f. (title), [i] (cast list, table of contents, credits of German translation to "Herrn v. Apell... Intendanten des Hoftheaters zu Cassel," and advertisement), 2-183, [i] (blank) pp. Engraved. With overpaste to foot of title: "In Frankfurt am Mayn, bey J. C. Gayl. weissadler-Gasse Lit. F. No. 14."Occasional annotations i(ncluding accidentals and notational corrections; literals in German) in pencil, especially to pp. 88-89 (no. 14), pointing to a performance transposed to E-flat major (instead of E major). Abrasion affecting first measure of p. 9.Former owner's signature to upper right corner of front endpaper erased, with "S[einem] l[ieben] Karl zu Weihnachten 1912. E." in ink below erasure.Some soiling and offsetting; most leaves with minor dampstaining and, from page 158, with some holes and tears professionally repaired; small stabholes to upper inner margins. . Published one year after the first edition. Köchel 6 p. 372. Hoboken 11, 111 (later issue, with price "Fl. 9," pointing to a date after 1814). Hirsch IV, 39 (later issue, with price "9 fl.," pointing to a date after 1814, and catalogue to final page). RISM M4192 (not distinguishing between issues). In the present edition the duet "Spiegarti non poss'io" (K489), composed for the 1786 performance in Vienna, replaces the original 1781 duet "S'io non moro" in act 3. The German text is by David August von Apell (1754-1832). [Bookseller: J & J Lubrano Music Antiquarians LLC ]
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[K366, 489]. Idomeneo, Re di Creta, Opera seria in tre Atti... Idomeneus König von Creta, eine ernsthafte Oper in drey Aufzügen... No. 51. Pr: Fr 21. [Piano-vocal score] Bonn Simrock [PN 51] [1798]. Oblong folio. Modern half dark blue morocco with black textured paper boards, early decorative cut-paper label with manuscript titling inlaid to upper, spine with titling gilt. 1f. (title), [i] (cast list, table of contents, credits of German translation to "Herrn v. Apell... Intendanten des Hoftheaters zu Cassel," and advertisement), 2-183, [i] (blank) pp. Engraved. With overpaste to foot of title: "In Frankfurt am Mayn, bey J. C. Gayl. weissadler-Gasse Lit. F. No. 14." Occasional annotations i(ncluding accidentals and notational corrections; literals in German) in pencil, especially to pp. 88-89 (no. 14), pointing to a performance transposed to E-flat major (instead of E major). Abrasion affecting first measure of p. 9. Former owner's signature to upper right corner of front endpaper erased, with "S[einem] l[ieben] Karl zu Weihnachten 1912. E." in ink below erasure. Some soiling and offsetting; most leaves with minor dampstaining and, from page 158, with some holes and tears professionally repaired; small stabholes to upper inner margins.. Published one year after the first edition. Köchel 6 p. 372. Hoboken 11, 111 (later issue, with price "Fl. 9," pointing to a date after 1814). Hirsch IV, 39 (later issue, with price "9 fl.," pointing to a date after 1814, and catalogue to final page). RISM M4192 (not distinguishing between issues). In the present edition the duet "Spiegarti non poss'io" (K489), composed for the 1786 performance in Vienna, replaces the original 1781 duet "S'io non moro" in act 3. The German text is by David August von Apell (1754-1832). [Bookseller: J & J Lubrano Music Antiquarians LLC]
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IL ZIBALDONE Poemetto in dodici canti del P. Atanasio da Verrocchio. Lettore di teologia nel convento dei RR. PP. Minori osservanti di ****. Londra (ma Bologna), (Marsigli), Anno 6. della Repubblica Francese (1798). In-16 gr. (mm. 179x116), mz. pelle coeva (abras. alle cerniere), pp. CCCXXXVII. Poema in sestine, di dodici canti. "Edizione originale" di questo ?"bizzarro novelliere in versi?". ?"Domenico Luigi Batacchi (1748-1802), pisano, poeta giocoso.. Con lo pseudonimo di "P. Atanasio da Verrocchio" uscirono dal 1791 le sue ?'Novelle?' in sesta rima, facili ma scurrili e, postumo (1805), il poemetto dello stesso genere, "Zibaldone".. Il Foscolo afferma che fu assai più licenzioso del Casti e nondimeno si direbbe che egli, come l?'Ariosto, voglia più rallegrare che corrompere i suoi lettori?". Così Diz. Treccani,II, p. 124. Cfr. Gay ?"Bibliographie des ouvrages relatifs à l'amour?",III,1402 - Parenti ?"Diz. luoghi di stampa falsi?", p. 130 - Parenti ?"Rarità bibliografiche?",IV, p. 138: ?"Edizione molto rara?". Il Melzi,I,95 porta, come data di ediz., Parigi, 1805. Esemplare ben conservato. [Bookseller: Libreria Malavasi sas]
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La Nouvelle Maison rustique, ou Économie rurale, pratique et générale de tous les Biens de Champagne, Deterville,, Paris, 1798 - nouvelle Édition, Tome II (von 3) Paris, Deterville, An 6/1798. 26 x 21 cm. 2 Bll., V, 899 S. Mit 60 Abb.20 Kupfertafeln, davon 15 gefaltet. Original Franzband aus geflammtem Kalbsleder (Hardcover) auf fünf echten Bünden. Mt reichen Rückenvergoldungen. Einband bestoßen, deutlich beschabt und berieben. Leder an den Kanten teils durchgeschabt. Gold der Fileten teils abgerieben. Kapital mit Leder hinterlegt. Ein Rückenschild fehlt, das andere nur teils erhalten. Kopfschnitt angefleckt. Vorsätze leimschattig. Seiten durchgehend sauber, nur wenige mit kleine Flecken. Tafeln sauber. Solides Exemplar. Entièrement refondue, considérablement augmontée, et mise en ordre, d'après les expériences les plus sûres, les auteurs les plus estimés, les mémoires et les procédés de cultivateurs, amateurs et artistes chacun dans les parties qui les concernent. Contenu: 3ième Partie. Livre premier. Culture du jardinage en général, et de toutes sortes de jardins. Livre second. Le Jardin Potager. Livre troisième. Le jardin fruitier. Connoissances préliminaires. Livre quatrième, Les jardins et fleurs d'ornement. Bastiens Werk ist eine Überarbeitung der erstmals 17012 in zwei Bänden erschienenen "Oeconomie Générale de la Campagne, ou Nouvelle Maison Rustique" von Louis Liger. Eines der populären Werke der französischen Hausväterliteratur, hier umfassend erweitert und aktualisiert, das einen umfassenden Eindruck in das Leben der Aristokratie öffnet und die Bedeutung des Gartens in dessen Leben spürbar macht . Auch beim deutschen Adel sehr verbreitet. Der zweite Band befasst sich mit dem Zier- und Nutzgarten, im dritten Band folgen neben anderen Themenn noch der Medizinalgarten, die Zitruspflanzen, die Orangerie, der Weinbau und die Kellerwirtschaft. Sprache: fra Einband bestoßen, deutlich beschabt und berieben. Leder an den Kanten teils durchgeschabt. Gold der Fileten teils abgerieben. Kapital mit Leder hinterlegt. Ein Rückenschild fehlt, das andere nur teils erhalten. Kopfschnitt angefleckt. Vorsätze leimschattig. Seiten durchgehend sauber, nur wenige mit kleine Flecken. Tafeln sauber. Solides Exemplar. Original Franzband aus geflammtem Kalbsleder (Hardcover) auf fünf echten Bünden. Mt reichen Rückenvergoldungen. [Attributes: Hard Cover] [Bookseller: Bibliotheca Botanica]
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A Voyage of Discovery to the North Pacific Ocean, and round the world... in the Discovery sloop of war, and armed tender Chatham, under the command of Captain George Vancouver G.G. and J. Robinson, 1798. Complete set, three volumes, quarto, with 18 engraved plates of views, some offsetting from the plates, bound with half-titles (often discarded), contemporary half calf gilt; with the separate folio atlas with 16 large plates of charts and views, a little light foxing, the atlas bound in contemporary red half calf with original paper boards, paper spine label. Cook's great apprentice in the Pacific: with the chart of Albany and the SW coast. First edition of this great voyage, "one of the most important ever made" (Hill), and of considerable significance for its discoveries in and charting of the south-west coast of Australia. Vancouver's chart of the "S.W. Coast of New Holland" is the West's equivalent of Cook's chart of Botany Bay.George Vancouver (1757-1798) got his early training as a midshipman and later Lieutenant on Cook's second and third voyages. After his return he spent most of the 1780s in West Indian waters, before being appointed, in 1791, to the command of a major scientific expedition to focus on the northwest Pacific: the successes of Cook's voyages were much in mind in the planning of this expedition, and it was no coincidence that Vancouver's new command was named Discovery, explicitly in honour of the vessel of that name that had sailed on Cook's third voyage. Vancouver sailed to the Pacific by way of Australia where, in 1791, he made landfall on the then largely unknown south-west coast and discovered and named King George III Sound (modern Albany). This was the first English visit to any part of the west coast since Dampier, whose poor reports had led to the neglect of that part of the continent. Indeed, the west was explicitly excluded from Governor Phillip's otherwise extensive realm, with the western boundary of his authority stopping at the famous "Pope's line", the line that still constitutes the inland border of Western Australia.After leaving the south-west coast, Vancouver unsuccessfully attempted to enter the Great Australian Bight, discovering and charting Point Hood on its western extremity. He then sailed past Van Diemen's Land into the Pacific, visiting New Zealand, Hawaii, and the Northwest coast of America. During the course of three seasons, he surveyed Alaska, the Northwest Coast, investigated the Straits of Juan de Fuca, discovered the Strait of Georgia, and circumnavigated Vancouver Island. He visited San Francisco, Monterey and other Spanish Settlements in Alta California, and made three visits to the Hawaiian Islands where he introduced cattle from Monterey. The expedition's storeship Daedalus sailed twice to Port Jackson, to deliver cattle and stores for the colony and despatches for Phillip - including Vancouver's charts of the south-west coast of Australia - and others for transmission back to London. Daedalus also collected such stores as were available at Port Jackson for the expedition. Vancouver also mentions that his ship was carrying breadfruit for planting at Norfolk Island.Cook would have approved of the accuracy of Vancouver's charting, which survived almost unchanged into modern times, and certainly Vancouver had learned the lessons of long voyages from his old captain, with only five men of a complement of 180 being lost in over four years at sea. But it is also true that by 1794 Vancouver was subject to wild mood swings and erratic behaviour which led to him being feared and sometimes mocked by his men (in modern times it has been argued that he was suffering from some form of hyperthyroidism, possibly Grave's Disease). His health was ruined by the time they returned to England in 1795. Vancouver retired to Petersham to prepare this publication for the press, but in an eerie foreshadowing of the fate of his successor Flinders, died at age 40 while the account was nearing publication. [Bookseller: Hordern House Rare Books]
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An Account of the English Colony in New South Wales: London: T. Cadell Jun. and W. Davies,, 1798. With Remarks on the Dispositions, Customs, Manners, &c. of the Native Inhabitants of the Country. To which are added, some Particulars of New Zealand; complied, by Permission, from the MSS. of Lieutenant-Governor King. Quarto (278 × 217 mm). Contemporary half diced russia, marbled boards, title gilt direct to the spine, compartments formed of double gilt rules, title framed by Greek key rule, beaded roll gilt to the spine and corner edges. Map frontispiece and a large folding map, 18 plates - including 8 of the Yoo-long Erah-ba-diang initiation ceremony - and four illustrations to the text, list of engravings bound in at the rear. Slightly rubbed and soiled, skilful restoration to the spine at head and tail, and to the joints, light toning throughout, occasional leaf with slightly heavier browning, the folding map with some soiling at the fore-edge from misfolding, but overall very good. First edition. Collins served in America as a marine, fighting at Bunker Hill and assisting with the evacuation of the loyalists at Boston, later taking part in the relief of Gibraltar under Lord Howe. After a period of half-pay he was appointed judge-advocate to the detachment of marines attached to the first fleet, eventually serving in the colony from 1788 to 1796. His administrative skills, reliability, and level-headedness secured his the position of confidential secretary to Governor Arthur Phillip and in the aftermath of the governor's departure in 1792 his integrity enabled his to resist succumbing to the "corruption that arose … when the officers of the New South Wales Corps gained power" (ODNB). On his return to England again placed on half-pay and having been denied advancement beyond the rank of captain despite his excellent services, he turned to his pen for support. Based on his journals the present work offers "a well-illustrated chronological account, with a wealth of information about events and people, much of it available nowhere else. A gregarious man, Collins had a keen eye for detail and a lively curiosity. He depicted the lives of the white settlers and devoted attention to the Aborigines, providing a description of their language and culture that was for long the best available." Described by Hill as "the first official account of the colony." The illustrations include a number of early views of Sydney and Parramatta, portraits and customs of the aborigines, and a Maori chart of New Zealand. The illustrations were engraved from watercolour drawings made by Edward Dayes from sketches made in the colony by a convict artist, Thomas Watling. A clean, complete, and carefully restored copy. [Bookseller: Peter Harrington]
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An Hibernian Atlas - Or General Description of the Kingdom of Ireland: Divided into Provinces; with its sub-divisions of Counties, Baronies &c. Shewing their Boundaries, Extent, Soil, Produce, Contents, Measure, Members of Parliament, and Number of Inhabitants; Also the Cities, Boroughs, Villages, Mountains, Bogs, Lakes, Rivers, and Natural Curiosities. Together with the Great and Bye Post Roads. The whole taken from actual Surveys and Observations. By Bernard Scale, Land Surveyor and beautifully engraved on 78 Copper Plates by Messrs. Ellis and Palmer. London, Robert Laurie & James Whittle, 1798.. Second [best] Edition. Large Octavo. Engraved title, engraved dedication-page and 78 beautifully engraved and handcoloured maps with descriptions. Original half-leather with gilt lettering on original red spinelabel. Excellent condition with minor scuffing to upper spine. Front free endpaper missing. The pastedown with minor peeling. Interior in absolutely excellent condition. The handcoloured maps in stunning colour. NO spotting or foxing !! The best version of this Atlas we have ever seen.. At the time of cataloging only two of these Atlases were available on the international market (one for 7700 Euros in similar condition like the one we have on offer and one unfortunately with later rebinding for 2250 Euros). This is an absolute must have for every collector of irish maps. [Bookseller: The Time Traveller's Bookshop Ltd.]
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Militärisches Handbuch für Infanterie- und Kavallerieoffiziere welcheseinen vollständigen Unterricht über das Aufnehmen und Zeichnenmilitärischer Situationen enthält. I. Die nöthigsten Kenntnisse aus der mathematischen Geographie in Verbindung mit der Lehre vom Aufnehmen und Zeichnen der Entwürfe einzelner Theile militärischer Situationen; II. Die Lehre vom Aufnehmen und Zeichnen militärischer Situationen nebst einer Anleitung zur allgemeinen Terreinkenntniß. (Lehrbuch der gesammten Kriegswissenschaften für Offiziere bei der Infanterie und Kavallerie. Theil 1, Die Vorbereitungswissenschaften. Abth. 3), I-II. [TWO VOLUMES]. Halle, Hemmerde & Schwetschke, 1798-1800.. Two volumes. Royal octavo. Pp. xviii, 492, (10) tables, plus 5 folding copper engraved plates bound at end; xxii, 478, plus large folding engraved map, contemporary hand-coloured, and 5 folding copper engraved plates bound at end. Hardcover, bound in matching, not identical contemporary handsome half calf and marbled boards, spines richly decorated in gilt, contrasting gilt morocco labels, old military institution stamps to each title and first paste-down. In fine condition. Excellent, attractive set, exceptionally well preserved. ~ First edition. Friedrich Meinert (1757-1828), was professor of philosophy at the University of Halle. In 1797 he began his military career as a Royal Prussian Lieutenant in the Second Engineers Brigade; taught fortifications and fortress war at the Military Engineering Academy in Potsdam. Compiled the "Encyclopädie der Kriegswissenschaften und der Kriegskunst". He was a prolific scientist who wrote on astronomy, geodesy, economics and architecture. He was the first to "apply mathematics for the well-being of the state and its citizens, not so much to questions of distribution and political welfare as to economic law and theory, and above all to a multitude of technical questions that fall under the jurisdiction of the government: structural engineering in construction inspections; ballistics for artillery; mechanics and machinery in mills, transport, manufacturing, and mining." -- Rüdiger Campe: The Game of Probability: Literature and Calculation from Pascal to Kleist (2012).. [Bookseller: Librarium of The Hague]
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Sehens würdiger Seezug der vorterfflich aus gerüsteten Russischen Flotte durch die Dardanellen in den Archipellägus am 1ten Septt. 1798'. - Kupferstich b. Johann Gottfried Baumann, 1798, 18,5 x 26,5 Sehr selten! - Zeigt die russisches Seeflotte bei der Durchfahrt der Dardanellen mit Ansicht von Istanbul; darunter Porträt von Christian Kurfürst zu Sachsen (gest. 1611). (Bilder zum Artikel auf meiner Homepage, oder bei Anfrage - pictures on my homepage or after request) [Bookseller: Antiquariat Norbert Haas]
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Habits of New French Legislators London: H. Humphrey, 1798. - Gillray Punctures ParliamentComplete and Exceedingly Scarce[GILLRAY, James]. Habits of New French Legislators and other Public Functionaries. London: H. Humphrey, 1798. First edition, complete; both series. Folio (platemarks c. 260 x 195 mm). Twelve hand-colored engravings, some stipple and aquatint, lettered with series title and plate number 1-12 above the image, lettered below the image with the title in French, engraver's name A"J.s.G.y.d. & f.t. and the publication line. Housed loose in a blue cloth portfolio. A very fine set.Not in Abbey, Tooley, or Ray. The copy in the British Museum Satires collection is incomplete. OCLC records only one complete copy, at the BNF.Only two complete copies at auction within the last ninety years, in 1926 and 1956.James Gillray (1756 or 1757 - 1815), was a British caricaturist and printmaker famous for his etched political and social satires, mainly published between 1792 and 1810. The name of Gillray's publisher and print seller, Miss Hannah Humphrey is inextricably associated with that of the caricaturist. Gillray lived with Miss (often called Mrs) Humphrey during the entire period of his fame. It is believed that he several times thought of marrying her, and that on one occasion the pair were on their way to the church, when Gillray said: "This is a foolish affair, methinks, Miss Humphrey. We live very comfortably together; we had better let well alone." The times in which Gillray lived were peculiarly favourable to the growth of a great school of caricature. Party warfare was carried on with great vigour and not a little bitterness; and personalities were freely indulged in on both sides. Gillray's incomparable wit and humour, knowledge of life, fertility of resource, keen sense of the ludicrous, and beauty of execution, at once gave him the first place among caricaturists. He is honorably distinguished in the history of caricature by the fact that his sketches are real works of art. The ideas embodied in some of them are sublime and poetically magnificent in their intensity of meaning, while the forthrightness - which some have called coarseness -which others display is characteristic of the general freedom of treatment common in all intellectual departments in the 18th century. The historical value of Gillray's work has been recognized by many discerning students of history. "Gillray's treatment ranged from the heroic to the broadly comic, but his excesses at either extreme are excused to the discerning student because of the presence of that relevant satire which distinguishes caricature from crude foolishness.When Gillray [as here] illustrated his suspicion that [Sir Charles] Fox and others were inclining towards the advanced ideas of the French revolutionaries sans-culottes, by drawing them always without any trousers, he produced 'vulgarity' but not silliness. Fox was much incensed" (David Low, British Cartoonists. p. 12-13).Pub.d April 18, 1798:1. Le Ministre d'Etat, en Grand Costume [Mr. Fox].2. Le Membres du Conseil des Anciens [Duke of Norfolk, the Marquis of Sansdown, Duke of Grafton].3. Le Membres du Conseil des Cinq Cents [Mr. Byng, Michaelangelo Taylor, Lord Lauderdale, Lord Stanhope, Lord Derby].4. Membre de Directoire Executif [ Francis Duke of Bedford].5. President d'Administration Municipale [Horne Looke].6. Le Boureau [ Mr. Tierney].Pub.d May 21, 1798:1. L'Avocat de la Republique [Lord Erskine].2. Membre de la Haute Cour de Justice [Sir George Shuckborough].3. Juge de Tribunal Correctionnel [ Mr. Courtney].4. Juge de Paix [Mr. Nical]. 5. Le Tresorier [ Sir William Putney].6. Messager d'Eatat [Sir Francis Burdett].Cf. BM Satires 9197-9201, 9208-13. Wright and Evans 185-196. [Bookseller: David Brass Rare Books, Inc.]
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Über Natur und den Ursprung der Geistes-Zerrüttung, ein kurzes System der Physiologie und Pathologie des menschlichen Geistes. Leipzig, Kleefeld, 1798. - (17,5 x 10,5 cm). XXVI, 510 S. Pappband der Zeit. Erste deutsche Ausgabe seines Hauptwerkes, in dem erstmals in der englischen Psychiatrie die Geisteskrankheiten auf körperliche und psychische Ursachen zurückgeführt werden. - "An important contribution to psychiatry, Crichton combined the latest psychological knowledge with medicine's clinical experiences of mental illness. His chief goal was to analyze the human mind and explore the causes of mental disease. Crichton did not have extensive experience in clinical psychiatry and drew heavily on the German literature for illustrative case histories. He was also one of the first who discussed the forensic aspects of psychiatry in an English treatise on the subject and played an important role in identifying aphasia as a disease or injury of the brain centers and not necessarily a mental illness" (Heirs). - Gestempelt. Einband etwas berieben und bestoßen. - Hirsch/H. II, 143; vgl. Heirs of Hippocrates 1191 (2.dt.Ausg.) [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover] [Bookseller: Antiquariat Gerhard Gruber]
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Kamilla oder ein Gemälde der Jugend; aus dem Englischen der Frau d'Ablay, geb. Burney. Mit einer Vorrede von D. Johann Reinhold Forster. Berlin und Stettin, Friedrich Nicolai 1798.. 4 Bde. Hübsche HLdr.-Bde. d. Zt.. Goed. VI, 242, 44 (Förster); Raabe, Nicolai 315. - Erste deutsche Ausgabe des 1796 erschienenen Werkes "Camilla or a picture of youth". Es fehlt das Frontispiz zu Band 1. Die in Vergleichsexemplare sich im ersten Band befindliche Vorrede von XX S. zu Band 3 gebunden. Gering berieben und etwas braunfleckig, gutes Exemplar! [Bookseller: Antiquariat Uwe Turszynski]
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Gesamtansicht. - aquarellierte Umrißradierung v. Johann Ziegler n. Lorenz Janscha aus Malerische Ansichten des Rheinstromes von Speyer bis Düsseldorf b. Artaria u. Comp. in Wien, 1798, 39 x 50 Hanschke, Oppenheim am Rhein in historischen Ansichten, Nr. 20 - 1. Ausgabe! auf van der Ley-Papier mit getuschter Umrandung. (Bilder zum Artikel auf meiner Homepage, oder bei Anfrage - pictures on my homepage or after request) [Bookseller: Antiquariat Norbert Haas]
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Ueber die Anlegung einer Obstorangerie in Scherben und die Vegetation der Gewächse Andraische Buchhandlung,, Frankfurt a. Main, 1798 - [2.Aufl.]. Frankfurt a. Main, Andraische Buchhandlung, 1798. 17 cm. Titelbl., VI, 492 S. Mit einem Titelkupfer, drei (dav. einer kol.) Kupfertafeln und einem Obstverzeichnis. Original Pappband (Hardcover) der Zeit m. verbl. RS. Sehr schön. Einband minimal bestoßen und angefleckt, Seiten teils minimal braunfleckig. Vs. Titel Autogramm des protestantischen Predigers Johann Ludwig Hertzogenrath, dat. 1800. Dochnahl 35. Enslin/Engelmann 62. Sprache: deu Sehr schön. Einband minimal bestoßen und angefleckt, Seiten teils minimal braunfleckig. Vs. Titel Autogramm des protestantischen Predigers Johann Ludwig Hertzogenrath, dat. 1800. Original Pappband (Hardcover) der Zeit m. verbl. RS. [Attributes: Hard Cover] [Bookseller: Bibliotheca Botanica]
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Dramatische Werke.16 Bände. Leipzig, Georg Joachim Göschen 1798-1802.. 8°. Mit 16 Kupfertafeln (1 Verfasser-Porträt) von und nach W. Jury, H. Ramberg, H. V. Schnorr von Carolsfeld u. a. Dekorative Halblederbde. d. Zt. mit 2 farb. Rückenschildchen und Rotschnitt.. Goedeke V, 268,36. - Lanck.-Oehler III, 69 (Abb. 130 und 131). - Katalog Hirschberg 41 (Erinnerungen 82: "Vortreffliche Kupferstiche [...] genußreiche Lektüre"). - Bibl. Arno Schmidt 226.1 (unvollständig). - Erste Gesamtausgabe, einzige zu Lebzeiten erschienene und somit gleichsam die Ausgabe letzter Hand. - Band I mit der Autobiographie "Meine theatralische Laufbahn". Weiterhin enthalten die Stücke: "Die Jäger", "Verbrechen aus Ehrsucht", "Die Mündel", "Figaro in Deutschland", "Der Spieler", "Der Komet", "Der Magnetismus", "Allzu scharf macht schartig" u. v. a. - Iffland (1759-1814) war neben Kotzebue der ungekrönte Theaterkönig seiner Zeit. Bereits in Schülertagen verfiel er zusammen mit seinem Klassenkameraden Karl Philipp Moritz einer regelrechten "Theatromanie", riss von zu Hause aus und feierte in Gotha als junger Schauspieler seiner ersten Bühnenerfolge. Daraufhin tat er sich in Mannheim auch als Autor hervor und schrieb dort sein erfolgreichstes Stück "Die Jäger. Ein ländliches Sittengemälde" (1785). Mit diesem Kracher eröffnete Goethe 1791 das Weimarer Theater. Iffland reüssierte auch weiterhin als Schauspieler, ein Triumpf wurde die Darstellung des "Franz Moor" in Schillers "Räuber" in der Uraufführung von 1782. Zwischen Schiller und Iffland entwickelte sich fortan eine enge Zusammenarbeit. Iffland entwickelte im weiteren Verlauf seiner Karriere das Berliner Nationaltheater zur ersten Bühne Deutschlands. Als Gönner und Förderer traten die preuß. Könige Friedrich Wilhelm II. und Friedrich Wilhelm III. hervor. Letzter verlieh ihm den "Roten Adlerorden dritter Klasse", somit wurde ein Schauspieler erstmals in Deutschland mit einem Orden dekoriert. - Die vorliegende Ausgabe wurde auf besserem, teils bläulichem Papier gedruckt (es gibt auch Ausgaben auf einfachem Druckpapier) und stammt aus der Adels-Bibliothek der Gräfin von Hoensbroech geb. von Schaesberg mit deren Namenschildchen auf den Titelblättern bzw. Band XVI Namenszug auf dem Vorsatzblatt. - Der Ehaltungszustand ist gut, innen nur stellenw. gering fleckig, die Einbandbezüge sind teilw. leicht berieben. Band XV versehentlich Titelblatt nicht bedruckt (leeres Blatt der dazugehörigen Lage vorhanden). Ohne den erst 1808 in Berlin bei Oehmigke erschienenen Erg.-Band "Neue dramatische Werke". [Bookseller: Antiquariat Halkyone]
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Ponte Acquoreo a Tivoli". Der Ponte l’Acquoria in Tivoli. 17981 - Radierung, Rom 1798, auf Velin. 28:38 cm. Literatur: Andresen 75, II (von II). Aus der 72-Blatt-Folge „Mahlerisch radirte Prospecte von Italien" die J.Chr. Reinhart, J.W. Mechau (1745-1808) und A.Chr. Dies (1755-1822) 1792-1793 nach der Natur für den Verleger und Kunsthändler Frauenholz in Nürnberg zeichneten und radierten. – Vorzüglicher und vollrandiger Abdruck, Einriß im oberen Rand hinterlegt. Reinhart studierte erst in Leipzig Theologie und nahm dann bei A.F. Oeser (1717-1799) Kunstunterricht. 1783 lernte er in Dresden J.Chr. Klengel (1751-1824) kennen, der ihn stark beeinflußte. 1785 begegnete er Schiller und schloß Freundschaft mit dem Dichter. In Meiningen, wo er 1786-1789 lebte und sich sein Landschaftsstil ausbildete, wurde er engster Vertrauter des Herzogs. 1789 zog er nach Rom. Dort ging er unter dem Einfluß von J.A. Koch (1768-1839) und A.J. Carstens (1754-1798) zum heroischen Landschaftsstil über. Ab 1825 erhielt er durch König Ludwig I. von Bayern eine Pension. 1839 wurde er Ehrenmitglied der Münchener Akademie und Bayerischer Hofmaler. [Bookseller: Galerie Joseph Fach GmbH]
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Gesamtansicht über den Rhein auf die Mainmündung mit Blick auf Mainz-Kostheim u. Hochheim mit der Kirche St. Peter u. Paul ('Ansicht von Kostheim und Hochheim von der Mündung des Mayns'). - aquarellierte Umrißradierung v. Johann Ziegler n. Lorenz Janscha aus Malerische Ansichten des Rheinstromes von Speyer bis Düsseldorf b. Artaria u. Comp. in Wien, 1798, 39 x 50 1. Ausgabe! - van der Ley-Papier mit getuscher Umrandung. (Bilder zum Artikel auf meiner Homepage, oder bei Anfrage - pictures on my homepage or after request) [Bookseller: Antiquariat Norbert Haas]
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ANDERNACH. "Churkölnische Stadt Andernach am Rhein". Gesamtansicht von belebten Rheinufer aus, links der Fluß, rechts die Stadt. - Altkol. Umrißradierung von Johann Ziegler nach Lorenz Janscha, 1798, 30 x 44 cm. Schmitt, Rhein-Beschreibungen 114, 31. - Aus der berühmten Sammlung "Collection de cinquante Vues du Rhin". - Bis an die aquarellierte Linienumrandung beschnitten. Aufwendig gerahmt. [Bookseller: Peter Bierl Buch- & Kunstantiquariat]
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Night Thoughts With the Life of the Author, and Notes Critical and Explanatory London: Printed by C. Wittingham for T. Heptinstall, 1798., 1798. 4to.; pp.364, with illustrations. Elegantly bound in full blue straight-grained morocco with raised bands, gilt titles and fine extra gilt tooling to spine, gilt and blind panelling to boards, green end papers with gilt dentelle, all edges gilt. Engraved portrait frontispiece, engraved title page with vignette, and illustrated with 8 copper engraved plates after Stothard. A little foxing to border of plates; binding slightly rubbed. An attractive copy. [Bookseller: Adrian Harrington Rare Books]
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Voyage à Botany-Bay, avec une description du pays, du m?urs, des coutumes et de la religion dés natifs Desenne, Anno VI, Paris 1798 - Octavo, xvi, 192 pp.; joints rubbed, very good in contemporary quarter roan with crimson morocco label. French edition of Barrington, with a five page preface explaining the extraordinary circumstances of the author, noting his aptitude for observation and return to grace in a new land.Garvey notes of this printing: 'French translation of the Voyage, nominally made from the third edition. This edition added various elements to the Voyage including a translator's preface, explanatory notes and, more interestingly, an additional paragraph at the conclusion of the work where 'Barrington' laments his exile'. [Bookseller: Hordern House Rare Books]
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The Country Builder's Assistant, Fully Explaining the Best Methods for Striking Regular and Quirked Mouldings Boston: Spotswood and Etheridge, 1798. Hardcover. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Small 4to. [20 x 14.5 cm]. (55) ff. including 37 consecutively numbered engraved plates, of which 2 are folding. No explanatory text for plates 9-10, 17-18, and 29-33 as issued. Bookplate on inside front cover. Bound in contemporary sheep, elegantly rebacked. Finely executed tipped-in illustration with a contemporary design for a façade employing ionic capitals. Some browning and offsetting, otherwise fresh and genuine copy. Rare second edition (first ed. 1797), complete, of the first American architecture book to contain original American content. Although Benjamin adopted many elements from British builders and architects, the complete designs were his own-and became a pivotal influence in the development of the American Federal style. With the publication of this handbook, Benjamin brought architectural history, style and geometry to ordinary builders in the field for the first time. Always conscious of appropriateness and feasibility, he adapted the British designs to fit the scale and budgets of New England communities. His plans were thus widely assimilated by both architects and carpenters, ensuring his pervasive influence and legacy. "There is scarcely a village which in molding profiles, cornice details, church spire, or farm-house does not reflect his influence" (DAB). In the present work, the young Benjamin ( 1773-1845) provides meticulously detailed diagrams and explanations for full house plans, including such details as spiral staircases, doorways, fireplace mantels, dormer windows, pilasters, balusters and fences. Unlike a basic pattern book, The Country Builder's Assistant supplements diagrams with precise instructions about how to calculate angles, distances, and curvatures, as well as how to keep components in perfect proportion to each other and to the rooms or parts of the house in which they are placed. Benjamin was sensitive to the need for this kind of precise, practical information since he himself had had to learn on the job while working for a local builder in Connecticut. But he quickly showed a remarkable aptitude for architectural design and construction. While still in his early 20s, he carved Ionic capitals for the 1794 modifications to the Oliver Phelps House at Suffield, CT, and soon after, designed and built a spiral staircase in the Old State House at Hartford. According to American Book Prices Current, no complete copy of this work in first or second edition has sold at auction in at least 50 years. *Evans 33399; Hitchcock 112; Rink 2484. [Bookseller: Martayan Lan, Inc.]
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Reflections on Monroe's view, of the conduct of the executive, as published in the Gazette of the United States, under the signature of Scipio. In which the commercial warfare of France is traced to the French faction in this country, as its source, and the motives of opposition, &c [Philadelphia: Pr. by John Fenno 8vo signed in 4s (20 cm, 7.9"). 88 pp.. 1798] Monroe was dismissed from office as minister to the French Republic, then replaced by Pinckney; he subsequently attempted to vindicate his actions and place blame on the president in a publication entitled A View on the Conduct of the Executive on the Foreign Affairs of the United States, Connected with the Mission of the French Republic, which piece is here attacked by the so-called Scipio. Tracy does not confine himself to reproving Monroe's words, but also denounces Paine's letters and one letter translated from French that is attributed to Jefferson. Recently rebound in quarter blue goat over blue cloth, leather edges with gilt roll-tooling; spine with gilt-accented raised bands and with gilt-stamped title, author, place, and date. Some pages spotted. [Bookseller: SessaBks, A Division of the Philadelphia]
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Quaderno de las Leyes y Agravios Reparados Cortes Generales celebradas en Estella de los años: 1724, 1725 y 1726 Cortes Generales celebradas en Tudela de los años: 1743, 1744 Cortes Generales celebrada en Pamplona del año: 1757. 1752-1798. . - Imp. Herederos de Martinez; Imp Miguel de Cosculluela. Pamplona. . 1 Vol. . 11 H.+244 pp.+246 pp.+32 pp.+251 pp. Folio Menor. Pasta española de época. Derecho (General), Vasco-Navarro (Navarra) . Volúmen facticio que contiene diversas emisiones de los cuadernos de Leyes de Navarra. Obra interesante para conocer la realidad política de Navarra en época de Felipe V . En buen estado. Encuadernado en pasta española de época con tejuelo y dorados en lomera. Buen estado. . [Bookseller: Librería Anticuaria Astarloa]
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OPPENHEIM. "Ansicht von Oppenheim". Prächtige Gesamtansicht mit außerordentlich reicher Personenstaffage. - Altkol. Umrißradierung von Johann Ziegler nach Lorenz Janscha, 1798, 30 x 44 cm. Schmitt, Rhein-Beschreibungen 114, 4. - Aus der frühen Ausgabe mit reicher aquarellierter Linieneinfassung. Eine der schönsten Ansichten von Oppenheim in feinem Altkolorit und in guter Erhaltung. - Gerahmt. [Bookseller: Peter Bierl Buch- & Kunstantiquariat]
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BONN. "Ansicht der Stadt und Gegend von Bonn". Gesamtansicht von einer Anhöhe, rechts der Zeichner mit Zuschauern, links ländliche Personengruppe und Schafherde. - Altkol. Umrißradierung von Johann Ziegler nach Lorenz Janscha, 1798, 30 x 44 cm. Schmitt, Rhein-Beschreibungen 114, 44. - Aus der berühmten Sammlung "Collection de cinquante Vues du Rhin". Mit reicher aquarellierter Linieneinfassung. Am rechten Rand etwas berieben, sonst farbfrisch und gut erhalten. [Bookseller: Peter Bierl Buch- & Kunstantiquariat]
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BOPPARD. Gesamtansicht vom Rhein aus mit mehreren Booten im Vordergrund. - Altkol. Umrißradierung von Johann Ziegler nach Lorenz Janscha, 1798, 30 x 44 cm. Schmitt, Rhein-Beschreibungen 114, 21. - Aus der berühmten Sammlung "Collection de cinquante Vues du Rhin". Altmontiert (ohne Beschriftung) mit reicher aquarellierter Linieneinfassung. Farbfrisch und gut erhalten. [Bookseller: Peter Bierl Buch- & Kunstantiquariat]
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